Who is Dante?

This month we read "How to Turn an Everyday Ordinary Hoopcourt into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium" (say that 10 times fast) by Matt de la Peña, and talked about how people are complicated. Everybody has multiple sides to them, and while the least desirable parts of a character may be real, so are the best parts of them too. In this class we came up with how we see the character of Dante before page 18 of the story, and how we saw him AFTER that part of the story. It was really cool to hear how students described Dante, and this is just one example of the language they applied to him.